Graeme Arnfield

Director, The Case Against Space

Graeme Arnfield (b. 1991, UK) is an artist filmmaker and composer living in London, raised in Cheshire, UK. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of technology, ecology and history. Research topics have included: the politics of digital networks, the distribution of ecological matter such as peat and asbestos and the adaptive circulation of global and local histories with a recent focus on labour struggles. His work has been presented worldwide including Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Dokufest, Sonic Acts Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, IMPAKT Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Fantasia Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Cripta747, Berlinische Gallerie, Signal Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and on e-flux & Vdrome. He graduated with a Masters in Experimental Cinema at Kingston University. His work is distributed by LUX, Arsenal and Square Eyes.

Filmography

• The Case Against Space, 2026
• Home invasion, 2023
• Pervading Animal (short), 2021
• The Phantom Menace (short), 2019
• Pedigree (short), 2018
• Shouting at the Ground (short), 2017
• Asbestos (short), 2016
• Colossal Cave (short), 2016
• Sitting in Darkness (short), 2015